Bellefonte, Pa., July 23, 1920.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
A Model for Boy Scouts.
July 11 marked both the birth and
death anniversaries of Alexander
Hamilton, to whom the United States
constitution is indebted for its exist-
ence more than to any other man. He
was born in 1757 on the Island of
Nevis, West Indies, and died forty-
seven years later, 1804 in New York.
His whole life furnishes a splendid
example for Boy Scouts; for he com-
bined with an extraordinary degree of
humaneness an unswerving devotion
to high ideals, and was the very em-
bodiment of the spirit of organiza-
tion.
When he was twelve he was put to
work in a business office at Christian-
sted, Island of St. Croix, West Indies.
He had received but little schooling;
and, yet, before he was thirteen, he
wrote so brilliant an article on a hur-
ricans which had swept the island
that it was not only printed in the
local paper, but gained him admiration
even beyond the bounds of the West
Indian islands.
To afford him an opportunity to
cultivate so excellent a mind, he was
sent to the “Colonies” arriving at
Boston in October, 1772, and going
thence, at once to New York. For
one year he attended a grammar
school in Elizabethtown, N. J., and
from there went to King’s College
(now Columbia University) in New
York city.
When he was seventeen years old
he attended a mass meeting, July 6,
1774, in the field which is now City
Hall Park, in New York. The meet-
ing had bezn called to discuss the id-
visability of establishing a general
congress for the colonies. Young
Hamilton was so thoroughly in sym-
pathy with the movement for separa-
tion from England that he felt in-
spired to address the meeting. And
so eloquently, and logically, and in
such burning words did he lay bare
his feelings and his views, that he at
once leaped into popularity and was
lionized by some of the foremost
patriots. 2
He was not yet eighteen when h
wrote two pamphlets—“A Full Vindi-
cation of the Measures of Congress
from the Calumnies of their Enemies”
and “The Farmer Refuted,”—which
were received with boundless enthusi-
asm.
In them he endeavored to prove
that the colonies owed allegiance only
to the king and not to Parliament,
and that they were justified in resort-
ing to extreme measures in defense of
their rights.
Hamilton had not signed these arti-
cles, and their wonderful masterful-
ness may be judged from the fact
that they were at first believed to have
been written by such eminent states-
men as John Jay or Robert Living-
ston. When it became known that
Hamilton was the author, he became
firmly established in the hearts of
the people as one of their most ad-
mired friends.
Besides a clear head, which was
capable of taking in every angle of a
subject and analyzing it until it lay
before his hearers or readers with
nothing hidden, young Hamilton had
a heart of the right kind. He was full
of sympathy for all who suffered, no
matter what the form of their sufter-
ing; and, above all things, he was just
to the point of risking his own life
rather than see injustice done even
in cases which did not concern him
directly.
For instance, while he was denoune-
ing the British government and de-
claiming against British oppressions,
he twice took a bold stand against
mobs which were threatening to do
violence to British sympathizers. He
came near losing his own life each
time. And later, after the War of
the Revolution was won and the state
of New York enacted a law allowing
patriots, disposessed during the British
occupation of New York, to collect
back rent from tenants who had paid
the rent to the British, he boldly brav-
ed public opinion by opposing the en-
forcement and calling for the aboli-
tion of such vindictive a law. He argu-
ed that the tenant should not be made
to pay twice, should not be held re-
sponsible for having been compelled
to pay one landlord instead of an-
other.
So tender-hearted was he that, it
is said, he never allowed the pressure
of any business, no matter how import-
ant, to interfere with his attention
when an appeal was made to him by
one in need of human aid. Nor did
he ever refuse aid when it was in his
power to give it. Nor did he first
make long-winded investigations to
find out whether the person asking for
aid was worthy. He gave the needed
relief first, and then made inquiries,
believing that it was better to be gen-
erous to a dozen cheats and discover
afterward that they had taken a gross
alvaatage of him than to allow one
really worthy sufferer to linger on in
agony for fear that he too, might be
a fraud.
It was Hamilton who drafted the re-
port at the Annapolis convention in
1786 which led to the assembling of
the constitutional convention at Phiia-
delphia in the following year. Guizot
the French historian, says of Hamil-
ton’s share in the framing of that
greatest document of liberty ever de-
vised by the brain and hand of man:
“There is not one element of order,
strength and durability in the con-
stitution which he did not powerfully
contribute to introduce into the
scheme and cause to be adopted.”
And, after it was drafted, it was
he who won over the New York con-
vention to adopt it in the face of an
opposition which almost any other
man would have despaired of over-
coming. The anti-federalist majority
against him was sixty-five to nine-
teen. And yet, so sublime were the
depth and sincerity and the vehemence
of his appeals to the delegates that in
the end even the leader of the opposi-
tion, Melanchton Smith, voted for
the adoption of the document.
Several times in the course of his
public career Hamilton had found it
necessary to check the overweening
ambition of Aaron Burr, and had
thereby irritated this brilliant but un-
scrupulous man to such an extent that
Burr at last challenged him to a duel.
Nothing was so foreign to the na-
ture of Hamilton as to wish to shed
blood in a private feud. And yet so
deep-rooted was the prejudice of the
age that even Hamilton regarded the
acceptance of the challenge as un-
avoidable if he were not to forfeit the
respect of the public and thus lose
the influence which he believed he re-
quired to be able to serve the people
in the crisis which were threatening.
“My ability to be in the future use-
ful either in preventing mischief or
effecting good is inseparable from a
conformity to prejudice in this partic-
ular,” he had written in a farewell
letter, which was found after his
death. He had also intended not to
but, as he was falling, wounded in
the side by Burr’s bullet, his own pis-
tol was accidentally discharged into
the air. He dide within a few hours.
—Public Ledger.
Extermination of Wild Life.
Dr. William T. Hornaday, Director
of the New York Zoological Park, and
a recognized authority on wild life,
warns that the end of game is near
at hand in America unless immediate
steps are taken to diminish its slaugh-
ter. He places on the “bag-limit” the
responsiblilty for the rapid extinction
by rod and gun of the objects sought
by the sportsmen. He avers that hunt-
ers and fishermen will have to re-
strain their zeal and confine them-
selves to what they can consume or be
faced with the entire extermination of
that which draws them afield. As he
puts it sportsmen must cease shooting
to the limit or cease shooting altogeth-
er. It is not a question of what one
would like but what is necessary to
preserve wild life from extinction. He
estimates that there are 5,000,000 men
and boys annually in the field, armed
and equipped for killing of game of
every kind. The slaughter is rapidly
declining not only game used for food
but also animals that yield valuable
pelts.
The remedy as he sees it lies in re-
ducing all bag-limits 50 per cent., re-
ducing hunting seasons in the same
measure, that hunting be pemitted the
individual only one year out of two,
and hunting license fees be doubled.
Even ‘this would not stop the illicit
slaughter which is certainly no incon-
siderable factor. Should the gam2
birds be exterminated, should the deer
and other denizens of the forest be
reduced to zero, should the lakes and
streams be robbed of their finny in-
habitants it may be readily appreciat-
ed that the sportsman would be rob-
bed of his pleasure. As Dr. Hornaday
avers, the way to prevent such a con-
dition is to stop the wanton slaughter
in time. Sportsmen might not get
quite so much game as they would
like, but a little better than none.
Did Dr. Hornaday occupy a less con-
spicuous position as an authority on
the subject on which he speaks his
words might be considered as voicing
needless alarm, but his name is a
guarantee that he speaks with full
knowledge of the gravity of the situa-
tion.—Gazette-Times.
More Farm Laborers Than There is
Demand For.
More persons are looking for jobs
on farms in this State than the farm-
ers want to hire, according to figures
for June, compiled by the free labor
employment bureau, operated by the
Pennsylvania Department of Labor
and Industry. Dr. Clifford B. Connel-
ley, the commissioner, has issued a
statement showing that 1,664 applica-
tions were made for farm jobs, while
the farmers sought the services of
1,504 agricultural workers.
The State bureau of employment,
however, reported an increase of 184
per cent. in agricultural placements
in June over May figures. There has
been a 408 per cent. increase in simi-
lar placements, as compared with the
record for April. Last month, 1,492
jobs were found for persons who
wanted to work on farms in this
tate.
In June, 16,392 positions were pro-
cured for applications in all parts of
Pennsylvania. Work was found for
3,741 ex-service men;
civilians and 1,916 women.
statement indicated a decrease of 4,-
405 in the total number of persons
placed in positions during June, as
against the May placements, the re-
port showed a 50 per cent. labor
shortage in this State. Employers
of labor applied for 49,480 workers,
and only 19,140 persons asked the
State employment service* to help
them find jobs.
Step by Step.
“Supposing,” said the man who
wants to see everybody happy, “that
we somehow arrange to give you a six
hour day. Are you sure that you
will be contented ?” .
“For the present. Of course, I
shouldn’t think of asking for less than
six hours’ work to the day. But I
have an impression that in the course
of time our chronological system
will need revision so that we’ll have
twenty-five or thirty minutes to the
hour.”—Washington Star.
Lifelike.
“And this?”
“A portrait of Mr. Jagsby, done in
oil.”
“In a favorite pose, I presume?”
“Exactly. You will notice he holds
a walking stick in his right hand, but
substitutes a glass for the cane, and
you will have Mr. Jagsby in the iden-
tical pose he used to assume when
crooking his elbow.”—Birmingham
Age-Herald.
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Farm Hands in Northwest Help Har-
vest Wheat Crop.
A land army of 100,000 farm hands
is moving northward across the west-
ern wheat belt harvesting the na-
tion’s grain crop in better time than
in many years.
The land army was recruited and
organized by Agriculture Department
officials working with Chambers of
Commerce and farmers’ organizations
in the west.
‘fire at his adversary, his letter said;
Women May Vote This Fall.
A Harrisburg dispatch says that
preparation of registration books and
blanks of County Commissioners to
permit speedy registration of the
women of Pennsylvania in the event
that suffrage is ratified was advised
by Attorney General Schaffer, when
a report reached the capitol that the
Governor of Vermont would call a
special session of the Vermont Leg-
islature August 1 to ratify suffrage.
Mr. Schaffer is understood to believe
that it is not necessary for a special
session of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture to pass enabling legislation be-
fore the women of the State can vote.
One of the qualifications for voting
provided in the constitution is that
a State and county tax must be paid
one month before election, which
shall have been assessed at least two
months before election. Only a small
portion of the women of the State,
those who own property, are on the
assessment lists, and if the Vermont
Legislature should ratify suffrage, the
first week in August, only three wecks
would remain in which to assess and
register the women voters.
The Attorney General is under-
stood to believe that women in the
State can vote provided they are as-
sessed and pay a tax in the time re-
quired by the constitution and are
registered in the districts where reg-
istration is required. While declin-
ing to give an official opinion, Mr.
Schaffer in an interview said:
“In view of the report as to the
likely ratification of the suffrage
amendment by the Vermont Legis-
lature it seems to me that it would be
the part of wisdom on the part of all
County Commissioners in the State
to have prepared the necessary regis-
tration books and other blanks to en-
able them to meet promptly the situa-
tion which will be on our hands in
Pennsylvania if ratification shall take
place.”
A late dispatch says: “Of course
no State official has received informa-
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tion that suffrage is to be ratified
without fail, but indications are that
it may be ratified soon, and both the
Governor and the Attorney General
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en of the State get the franchise to
which they will be entitled next No-
vember if suffrage is ratified in time
to permit assessment and enrollment
of the new voters. Should ratifica-
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and enrollment of the women will be
possible only through advance prep-
arations by county officials.”
——1If you see it in the “Watch-
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